When it comes to a summer season, out of all kinds of leafy vegetables to make kimchi with, the young nappa cabbage comes its best to make summer style kimchi. This summer cabbage kimchi has the tender crisp leaf and stem, just perfect texture for kimchi.
As I was growing up, I have seen my mother making summer cabbage kimchi from scratch every summer season. She used fresh red chili for the seasoning. It tastes good on the same day it was made as fresh kimchi, but it tasted even better after ...

Late fall is a busy season for most Korean housewives. It is the season of Kimchi making for long term storage. Kimchi, especially cabbage kimchi, is a staple dish in Korea. You can't skip kimchi at any meal. It is so important that we have to make sure that there is enough kimchi to last through the cold winter when cabbage is not available.
Cabbage is at its best around this time of year, and I have to make sure that I have plenty of kimchi to last for me and my family. I intended ...

Cabbage ramen salad is one of the oriental style salad recipes I have often ate when I first came to U.S 25 years ago. Every potluck party I went, someone always brought this salad. Some were really good, and the other were very oily or too sweet.
I was surprised to see how cheap the ramen was first, and then even more surprised how horrible it tasted after I tasted when it was made into noodle soup. No wonder people used only the noodle part of ramen package.
Toasting the ramen noodle ...

I don't think I can stop thinking about new ways of making kimchi. Here is another way of making cabbage kimchi that I am excited to share with you.
I have shown you the variety ways of making cabbage kimchi from the authentic whole cabbage kimchi to easy version of cabbage kimchi, and even the quickest way of making cabbage kimchi, etc.
This is not necessarily the easy and quick version of making authentic cabbage kimchi, but this method seems to be a lot easier to deal with than the ...

I spent nearly one month in U.S and came back home in Buenos Aires just a few days ago. Summer fun was gone and the cold winter was waiting in the southern hemisphere. After a long journey, I was craving my comfort food. Yes, Korean food!
The first dish I planned to make was my ordinary everyday easy cabbage kimchi. But alas~! Nappa cabbage was nowhere to be found in my friendly neighborhood grocery stores. So, instead, I picked up a piece green cabbage and made kimchi with it; the green ...

Korean soybean Paste (된장, doenjang) goes really well with cabbage or other type of leafy vegetables. The salty pungent flavor of fermented soybean is not for everyone, but once you are used to the flavor it quickly becomes your comfort flavor and you will crave for it. Koreans use this paste for not just in soups and stews, we use it in many salad type dishes as well.
Fermented soybean offers a lot of health benefits. If you like Korean food, I hope you try using doenjang more often in ...

Have you ever heard kimchi called "Nabak Kimchi"? It is a watery kimchi with cabbage and radish mingled in delicious yet pungent kimchi broth.
This is the kimchi that doesn't use any fish sauce or any fish product, so you can serve to your vegan friends or people with seafood allergy. It is also very mild in spiciness so even the young children who are not accustomed to the spiciness can enjoy the goodness of kimchi.
The word "nabak (나박)" comes from the shape of sliced cabbage and radish. ...

I often receive email messages from my readers regarding kimchi recipes.
I have posted several cabbage kimchi recipes with different approaches. The most authentic way of making winter cabbage kimchi, spring cabbage kimchi, easy and simple method kimchi, and the fastest 30 miniute kimchi are some of them. They all use napa cabbages that we can find very easily in many stores these days. Of course there are non-cabbage kimchi recipes posted on my site as well.
Kimchi is closed to a ...

I have a feeling that today's recipe will be either LOVE it or HATE it type.
It is all about the snails, the edible kinds. Yikes!!!
Actually the word "snail" for this dish is not the right translation. The sea snails I used for this recipe in Korean is called "골뱅이, golbangyi". The snail in Korean is "달팽이, dalpangyi". I couldn't find the right English word for golbangyi, and the next close thing is the snail. So I will call this recipe the Spicy Korean Sea Snail Salad, 골뱅이 무침 (golbangyi ...